Iran including attractive places and high potential for tourism (external and internal) and investing on tourism industry including social and economic effects leading to constancy of tourism areas. Unfortunately, despite high capacity of developing tourism in our country, this capacity has not recognized well and has not utilized for development of Iran. The special factors influence on transi...

Many studies have shown the crippling effects of sanctions on healthcare sector different countries, including Iran. Long-standing against Iran escalated recently and severely limited commercial activities with The devastating consequences these embargoes affected all aspects health care delivery in Iran, limiting availability critical medicines medical devices, negatively impacting primary car...

Medical tourism is one of the subdirectories of tourism in order to receive health care in other countries. It has become a major industry in the global arena. According to the great potential of this industry in Iran, is essential to paying more attention to this branch of tourism, economic effect and also the effect of economic indicators on tourism industry. Therefore, this paper examines th...

iran including attractive places and high potential for tourism (external and internal) and investing on tourism industry including social and economic effects leading to constancy of tourism areas. unfortunately, despite high capacity of developing tourism in our country, this capacity has not recognized well and has not utilized for development of iran. the special factors influence on transi...

Introduction: Iran has considerable potentials for growth of health tourism. However, they have not been properly realized towards national development.This paper has attempted to prioritize the development strategies of health tourism in Iran which has been conducted on the hospitals of Tehran. Methods: This study is a descriptive-analytical research. It...

Introduction: Iran offers many advantages for health tourism, e.g., low costs, high quality healthcare, qualified doctors, and abundant natural attractions, but there are also obstacles to the development of health tourism in Iran. This study aimed to identify and prioritize the barriers to health tourism in hospitals affiliated with Tehran University of Medical Sciences....

climate is a natural resource that effects decision making for selection of destinations in tourism and ecotourism. therelationship between climate and tourism is a complex one. but application of a climate index provides an ideal approachto understanding this complexity and is a useful tool for the tourism industry. in this study, a modified version ofmieczkowski's (1985) tourism climate index...

Introduction: Health tourism refers to any type of travelling seeking improvement of health condition. It can be treated like a national strategy toward increase of national income. The present study is an attempt to survey the factors in development of health tourism in Iran. Methods: The study is an analytical research and data used in the study were gl...